Richard Ryan’s Tax Time Penny Plinking

That’s a sick looking range he’s shooting at with the walls on either side. Looks like the wind was blowing right down the center though (he said at 65MPH) which obviously is less than ideal haha. Nice shooting though despite that! I sort of regret selling my .22LR drop in conversion kit… it didn’t run all that smoothly so it was probably for the best. I’d like to get another one someday though if I can come across one that’s reliable enough to feed the cheap bulkpack ammo while I pull the trigger as fast as humanly possible.

My brother has a CMMG conversion kit that he sometimes runs in his RRA beater gun. In our collective experience, and while running black dog mags, it seems to like harder brass (like Aguila) and not like softer brass (like federal).

I don’t recall having any case failures with Aguila, but I’ve had several with Federal. If I had to guess, it’s a timing issue, and the drop in kit is allowing the trigger to be pulled before it’s fully in battery (and thus the slightly harder brass of the Aguila has enough strength to finish chambering where the softer-cased Federal sometimes doesn’t.).